United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 55
Chap. LV.—An Act in addition to the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, entitled “An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery.”[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Vessels licensed for the mackerel fishery not subject to forfeitures, &c.
Act of May 1828, ch. 119.
1793, ch. 8. That vessels duly licensed under the provisions of “An act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery,” passed May twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be deemed or taken to be liable to the forfeitures imposed by the fifth and thirty-second sections of the act of Congress, approved the eighteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same,” in consequence of any such vessel, whilst licensed as aforesaid, having been engaged in catching cod, or fish of any other description whatever,Proviso. Provided, however, That this act shall not be deemed or considered as authorizing or entitling the owner or owners of any vessel licensed for the mackerel fishery, to receive the bounty allowed by law to vessels employed in the cod fishery.
Approved, April 20, 1836.
- ↑ See notes to act of March 2, 1819, ch. 48.